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L. SOHIELE.

No. 389,015. Patented Sept. 4, 1888.

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LEVIS SOHIELE, OF NE YORK, N. Y., ASSIGNOR TO LE\VIS SOHIELE & (10., OFSAME PLACE.

CORSET.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 389,015, datedSeptember 4., 1888.

Application filed May 7, 1888. SeriaLNo.lTS.05G. (No model.l

T (LZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LEWIS SOI-TIELE, of New York, in the county of NewYork and State of New York, have invented a new Improve ment in Corsets;and I do hereby declare the following, when taken in connection withaccompanying drawings and the letters of reference marked thereon, to bea full, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said :0drawings constitute part of this specification,

and represent, in-

Figure 1, a front view showing the breast portion of the corset with theflap closed, broken lines indicating the tlap turned to the :5 right orleft to open the breast; Fig. 2, a vertical central section through thebreast portion of the corset; Fig. 8, the pintle part of the hingedetached; Fig. 4, the eye part of the hinge detached.

This invention relates to an improvement in that class of corsets whichhave an opening through the breast portion and a flap for closing thesame, commonly called nursing-corsets; and the invention consists incombining with the flap and body of the corset a hinge presenting asegment-shaped pintlc, so that the liap may swing downward and outwardor be turned to the right or left on the segmentshaped pintle, as morefully hereinafter described.

Thebody of the corset may be of any of the usual constructions. Throughthe breast portion is an opening, A, across which opening at the topruns a band, B, preferably stayed.

0 represents the flap, which is in area larger than the opening A. Theflap is hinged to the body of the corset, so as to permit the opening orclosing of the aperture in the corset.

The hinge is composed of the two parts D 0 E. The part D is best made inthe form of a circular disk, near one edge of which an opening, a, ismade, leaving a segmentshaped bar, d, which forms the pintle for thehinge. This part D is adapted to be attached to the body, 5 and to thisend the solid portion of the disk below the opening (6 is pierced, as ate, through which eyelets may be introduced to secure it firmly to thebody of the corset below the lower end of the flap O. The other part, E,may be made from any suitable material, as metal or fabric. In case ofmetal, it may be the shape as seen in Fig. 4, of a length so that whendoubled it may embrace the lower end of the flap, as seen in Fig. 2.Before applying the part E of the hinge to the flap C it is 5;, passedthrough the opening a in the part D and doubled around thesegmental-shaped pint-1e cl, and then is secured to the flap, asrepresented in Fig. 2. This may be done by an eyelet, as shown, orotherwise. This forms a strong hinge between the flap and body of thecorset, and one which permits the flap to be turned directly outward, asrepresented in broken lines, Fig. 2, or to swing to the right or left,as represented in broken lines, Fig. 1. The flap G is secured at theupper end by tucking it benealh the band B or otherwise.

The outline of the pintle portion of the hinge, as represented, is of acircular shape; but it will be understood that this may be of anydesirable shape and more or less ornamental, it only being essentialthat there shall be a segment-shaped pintle upon which the eye portionof the hinge attached to the flap may be turned either to the right orleft or outward and downward in opening.

I claim A nursing-corset having an opening through the breast portionand provided with a flap,

O, of an area larger than the opening in the said breast portion,combined with ahinge between the flap and body, the said hinge consisling of a metal segment-shaped pintle made fast to the one part andan eye looped about the segment made fastto the other part, sub- 8stantially as described.

LEWIS SCHIELE. iVitnesses:

F. B. KNITTWEIS,

A. L. STEINLEN.

